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-.,.. ..."' . . f--- ~._) 1 1' 1“;- ' - -5 -:. THE CORN-LAWS. -%-:',..,_.;.,.-._rr.::„. --------- • TO THE EDITOR OF THE S S''' 4 7 ......__. 'SIR,--In answer to a letter which appeared hlt R — Fige• _ , a few days ago, from Sir Thomas Lethbridge, I take the liberty of inclosing a reply to Sir Thomas. I shall feel obliged by its insertion in your truly valuable Paper--for the more this subject of the Corn-laws is agitated, the sooner will the people come to an understanding with their legislators, and get relieved of the burden. . . I am ; Sir, your most obedient servant, imp.... Nottingham, Dec. 9, 1838. JOHN CLAYTON. Pd. 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A. meeting of the members of this Association was convened last night at Chesney's Rooms, Foley-street, in order to as certain their opinions on the subject of the National Conven. tion, on the recent proceedings in Edinburgh, &c. The room was excessively crowded. FEAROUS O'CoNNoe, Esq., having been unanimously called upon to preside, addressed the meeting nearly in the following terms : —Wan-king Men of St. Pancras,—lt is now more than three years since I bad the honour of presiding over a Radical meeting .n London. However, at that period I told you that, no mat ,er how long my absence might be, no matter i n w h at coup t r y I might li ve d ur i ng my absence, would return to you again precisely the man I left aou.---(Cheers.) Although these times are now considered a little dangerous, and although the vicinity of a Court, and more especially a Court surround e d by such men as surround the Court now, may be considered a dangerous position, and notwithstanding the many warnings I have recently had of that danger, I stand before you to-night to advocate the same principles, namely, Ultra-Radicalism. As soon as it was announced that I intended once more to try the fruit of thatprinciple in London,the Downing- street kitchen maid, the Weekly Chronicle, edited by George Henry Ward. the Member for Sheffield, had the audacity to attempt. ta midate me, by telling me that the moment I came to a Lor.dol meeting the police would arrest me.—( Laughter.) lam here now, and I dare the police—.l defy the police—and I dare the masters of the police.—(Loud cheers.) If the laws are bad, so long as I have your support, who ought in justice and righteousness to make the laws, I am stronger than the law,: themselves, if they are attempted to be perverted against me. —(Cheers.) And who is this Mr. Ward ? fie is a man who, individually,exposes,revi!e s , and condemns the Ministers, .thi!st he has the sncakingness to support them as a confederac . ) against the people. He tells you that, as individuals, they arc one and all of them bad, but that expediency obliges him to support them. Why ?—for fear we should have worse. I should like to know where he could find them.—(Cheers.) We have tried these men now for a length of time, and we have invariably found them guilty. We court investiga tion, whilst they shrink from the public countenance, and pro crastinate their day of trial till the very last moment. flow is it that they dare not meet the country at the present juncture? We see my Lord Durham in London actually claiming jus tice, such as he calls it, for Canada, which means justice for himself, and that justice is deferred, while my Lord Mel bourne, the old beau, may come and go to and from the Palace just at the hour that best suits him.—( Laughter.) This might do very well if the question was only a question between my Lord Durham and the Ministers; but while we make it a question between the labouring classes and the Ministers, they cannot longer trifle with us. We are now upon the eve of meeting what they have been pleased to call another Parlia ment. Long-looking, anxiously hoping for something like justice from a Reformed Administration, you withhold justice until forbearance becomes a crime ; and you have said to yourselves, we will now have leaders of our own, we will esta blish a small Parliament of forty-nine, and we will place their proceedings in contrast with the absurdities of those men who have been so long misgoverning us.—( Loud cheering.) I have laboured as ardently to give effect - to that meeting as any other man has; and one of my principal reasons for ap pearing before you to-night is, to put you upon your guard, not against the Whigs, because they are known to you—not against the Tories, because they arc the old embittered foes of mankind--(Cheers)—but against the deserters from our own party. You have nothing to apprehend from the pusillanimity of the Whigs —you have nothing to dread from the bold auda city of the Tories—but you have much to dread from those who have obtained power by your influence, and would now turn that power to their own class distinctions and their own personal advantage.—(Cheers.) An attempt has been made in different places to try to turn this to such purposes. A party have sprung up up, calling themselves " Philosophical Radicals" —a party of men who, instead of assailing the strong. hold of corruption, would assail the tea-pot and the exciseman —(Laughter)—a party of men who speak of moral courage and denounce physical force. Why, they would be the first to use physical force, and to abstain from anything like a trial of moral exertion in this country. I have been denounced as a person who recommended physical force. I stand here before you, and if my life hung upon the lips of a judge, or upon the verdict of a jury of shopkeepers, if I had recommended phy sical force I would not retract the assertion. But during my whole existence—during my whole Radical career—l never, directly or indirectly, recommended physical force.—(Loud cheers.) But I'll tell you what Ido recommend—l recom mend a strong pourtraa al of moral force. Ido not look upon moral force with the same eye as the " Philosophical Radi cals." They consider it moral force to write a strong article in a newspaper. I consider it moral force to meet those men who are to carry the Radical petition to the House of Com mons—four or five hundred thousand strong—marching down without arms in your hands, and sending your compliments into the House of Commons to say that Mr. Attwood and Mr. Fielden are the bearers of a message, and e that you wait for a reply outside. —(Hear, and great cheeting.) That's moral force, and that's constitutional force. It may not be exactly legal force. You may be told that more than a certain number of persons are not to go upon any occasion to the House of Commons. Such is the law. What ought to be the law ? The law ought to be what the people say is right, and what the people say is just —not the whole people, because that could not be but the majority of the people—because that could be and ought to be.—( Cheers.) You arc now represented in this borough—and how are you represented ? Are there five men here who would hold up their hands for the man whois said to be the representative of Marylebone in the House of Commons? —(No, no.) No, not five men. Then are you represented in the House of Commons ? No, not a single man of you— ( Cheers.) But mark the turn that your cause was about to take. There was a trial of strength, it was supposed, at Bir midgham, and after that followed a trial of strength at Edin burgh, and there the " Philosophical Radicals" came out, and began to dencunce Feargus O'Connor and the physical force men. How is this followed up? Why, by the mild, sucking of Daniel O'Connell—(Hisses)—who denounces me as a miscreant, whilst with the other side of his mouth ho is talking of being armed, and invading this country for the sake of the young and virtuous Queen Victoria with five hun dred thousand of his armed Precursors. If this does not sound stronger of physical force than anything I ever uttered, I don't know what physical force means.—(Cheers.) But nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see this man, who calls me a miscreant, coming with his force ; for as soon as they saw the spirit of Radicalism they would desert from Daniel O'Connell and flock to the standard of Universal Suffrage.—( Great cheering.) Why do I look for Universal Suffrage for Ireland as well as for England ? Why, because Ireland is my country. I look for Universal Suffaige for- Ireland, because it would take the mask off the jugglers in that country_ because, if the total extinction of tithes does take place, which would have been the case long since if it had not been for the great juggler, Universal Suffrage alone can tarn it to proper and profitable account. If to-morrow they bad the Extinction of Tithes . in Ireland with out Universal Suffrage, it would] only Ibe taking; loot from the Parson, and giving:l3ol. to the Landlord.—( Laughter and cheers.) That is the meaning ; but it all resolves itself into the compass of a nut-shell, and that nut was cracked on Sun day last, when Daniel had the mortification of finding the ker nel only pence instead of shillings as heretofore.—( Laughter. ) He mounted the ladder upon the shoulders of poor men, who willingly gave their pence to support him.; and now that be has crushed the trades, now that be has left Canada mourning at his feet, he says it is only the National Bank of which he is a proprietor—that is, the respectable portion of society. This is the man who calls me a miscreant, and who asks where I, who preach physical force, was when the riots at Todmor den took place, and bow I can lie on my bed and reflect on when the h the p v eb e r e s e o a n sh i n w e a r o have e erate d lost i their t gaol.e i r Now husbands, a n and lrishman o is hm n h a et generally r w a i b ly sw who t a h n es e i r a s a ughqtueerstitoonekbypalasekeingatanßotahtehre.orn Where W w h a :re he w when there was ever anything to be done, but in the back. ground, skulking and le av in g th e f orce t h at h e had le d on to the assault ?—( Hear, hear, an d c h eers .) Wh at now be comes your duty—not so much to raise an offensive force as a defensive force. We are now threatened on the one hand with R o y a l proc l amat i ons, prepared by my Lord Mel bourne, for a g o od cast o f w h ose h ea d , if I was a barber, I has would give 50/.—( L aug h ter ) — i n consequence o f what taken pl ace i n the - North; and I must now tell you a few Union, which num b ers 56,000 men paying members, and words about our nor th ern b ret h ren. W e h ave a N o rthern 1,500 of th ese are enro l led at Bradford alone.—(Cheers.) We found th a t th ese men could not generally express them selves them in duranc e d ur i ng t h e d ay; and, as they were desirous at publi c meet i ngs, b ecause the money-mongers bald of making th e i r sent i ments known, I recommen d e d them to meet by torc hl ight. They met. Not a violation of the peace took place. On the contrary they were the guardians of the peace, even under the dark cloud of night, Seeing that the union, which could not be effected by day, was achieved in the night, Lord Melbourne goes down to the Palace, and I suppose, whilst a chicken was " devilling"—(Laughter) —he writes a mast ungrammatical Proclamation, and one containing greater nonsense, and more illegality, I never saw i n my life ;but but he puts down our torch light meetings. When ? Not until he finds our party is about to be broken —not until the men in Edinburgh have treason ably come forward and denounced the principle they were the first to advocate. The very moment desertion takes place its the ranks, it is followed up by hostility on the part of all the Press. The very instant one man is lopped off, all who have taken part in the movement are to be lopped off after them. I have stood forward both in and out of the House of Com. mons, battling all parties who dare to arrest the people in ibeir.onw ar d course o f liberty..—.( Ch eers. ) N ow t hi s trick ster—this man who is a di sgrace to any Government, and therefore a mu c h greater di sgrace to be at the head of a Go vernment—this man, wh o i s a f raid to meet Parliament whilst a civil war is raging in Canada —bas only one way of sub duing our feelings, and that is to put out our farthing candles. —(Laughter.) Put lam going to `give him something to do next month; we shall have a pretty new moon in January, am' let us see if he will put out the moen.---( Loud and long-con. tinued cheering.) Let us see if Daniel O'Connell, and his staff of Precursors, will come to his assistance, and go up to the man in the moon. Let us see what they will do when placed in this emergency, but don't you be afraid in London. We arc all right in the North.—(Cheers.) Don't be afrae of two or three foolish men, with a parson at the head of them —Dr. Brewster. I suppose Dr. Brewster, one day or other, intends to be Primate of the Radicals. He does not like the Church property to be meddled with, because he expects t have his share of it.—( Laughter.) Don't be alarmed about the state of feeling in Edinburgh, for I intend, with th blessing of God, to try the real feeling there early next month.—(Cheers.) I am not to be frightened by thost voices, though they may come thundering from the North. I am going to see in Dr. Brewster's own town whether the real Radicals or the sham and " Philosophical Radicals" are the strongest party. The very instant the Government finds the " Philosophical Radicals" arc the strongest, they will at once thunder out their anathemas against our party. They are already beginning to feel annoyed, and some of them say they are for the greatest practical extension of the suffrage : wha' they mean is, such an extension as will suit their own conve nience ; what I mean is, the most we are able to take from them. If to-morrow they gave us Household Suffrage, I would make use of it to obtain Universal Suffrage.—( Cheers.) These are not the times to recede one single step : if we do, we fall to the ground at once. !f a dog follows you, and you run away, he will bite your heel; but if you turn round and kick him, he will set off with his tail between his legs— ( Laughter.) If these Whigs follow us and attempt to bite. give teem a kick.—( Cheers.) They tell you that yon should obey the law so long as it is the law; but it will always be the law so long as you obey it. These " Philos° phical Radicals" have placed upon their banners a motto of which I highly approve, " Peace, Law, and Order"—that is if peace procures the law, then I am for order; but if peace procure not the law, then I am for disorder. Peace, to be valuable, must produce that which will give the • 1 greatest amount cf happiness to the people. But if the peace is to be all on one side, I care not for it : lam for peace being general, or not at all.—.(Cheers.) You ask what. is my opinion? It is, that if you bring one-half your moral force to bear, you will be able to accomplish Universal Suffrage. But every man must work as I have done —every man must suppose that on him alone rests the responsibility, and that he has not done enough until he can unfurl the standard, and say that Universal Suffrage is the law of the land.—(Cheers.) After some further remarks, Mr. O'Connor again adverted to Mr. O'Connell, who be said bad had more power in his hands than ever fell to the lot of one man in the country. Has he not been in Parliament ten years ? And yet I defy you to put your finger on a single clause in any Act brought into the House of Commons by him for the amelioration of the con dition of the working classes. Of what use is his power? Is it not worse than if be had none at all ? Who put doin the Trades ? Daniel O'Connell. Who was sworn to abandon Ministers if they attempted to coerce Canada ? Daniel O'Connell. Who pledged him .elf to be present and oppose Ministers on every division on that question ? Daniel O'Con nell. Who used all the malicious ingenuity of a practised Barrister to thwart and twist and turn every particle of evi dence against Trades' Unions in this country_? Daniel O'Con nell..—( D ha ay givee dares h e is ' C t oi mo favourablen call at n e 1 me voluminous —a mi C l e h e n y g e t e h e e nell.—( Chee rs . ) W ho was it that told the Attorney-Ge neral the D orc h ester labourers had been rightfully trans. ported ? D an i e l O'Connell.--(" Shame.") Wh o ga v e th e cast n ing O vote against t h e f actory slaves in this country ? ( " S ! a r t' ant hy e") . W And , t y h e e t tebhiesseisef eeh th s eman wh eu e honour—myman is my greatest honour —y greatest p r id e . B ut mar k the tot m ev_ re r e y e day Why ? classes. B Press. Whil e they will not give a sentence of your meetings, If there were twenty angels in the House of Commons, they would be overborne by the great power which the money mongers have in that house. Why do we ask for Universal Suffrage ? Why, that labeur, should be represented ; and ii labour is represented, capital must, because without the employment of labour, capital would be of leo use, and without the expenditure of capital labour would be of no use.--( Cheers. ) I give you my advice : never, so long as you have a foot of moral resting ground, be misled by any man to enter into a civil war, for when it once commences, God only knows where it will end ; and the working classes, by going on in their undeviating course of assaulting by their moral power, will be able to affect all that is necessary for themselves.—( Cheers.) For three years I was said to be a Tory spy ; and now. I am said to be a Whig spy. lam going to accept both, but with a little difference ; I ant a spy, but it is upon the Whigs and Tories—l am a spy for the Working Classes, and so long as I have an eye to spy, no damage shall come to them, and so long as I have an arm to lift—.as long as their rights are invaded, I will raise that arm and die fighting in their ranks.—(lmmense cheering.) nook upon this meeting as a most important one ; and if the resolutions proposed be adopted, they will speak volumes. Why ? Because this meeting will be consi dered as speaking the sentiments of the same class throughout the country.--(Cheers.) It was si m pl y my d uty to open the meeting ; but I thought it my duty to speak of the strength behind you—to expose the weakness of O'Connell—to expose the imbecility of my Lord Melbourne, who, believe me, has some woes hanging over his head. The people of this country will not stand this dalliance—they will not be satisfied with an old worn-out beau devoting . his time to driving backward and forward, while the country is in confusion, and Canada may he in flames.—(Cheers.) In defiance of Hemy George W ar d, the lick-spittle of the Whigs—in defiance of all the Lond on Press—notwithstanding the Chronicle and the Globe recom mended that I should be tried—l stand here in defiance of them all. lam stronger than bad law, because there is good • law behind my back.—(Great cheering.) I thought it no. cessary to give you my opinion of physical force, to expose th e truculence of the leaders in the State, and to renew my co venant with you, which is, that I will stand by you to the d ea th' and that I will die a Radical and a Radical only.—(M r . O'Connor resumed his scat amidst loud and prolonged cheering.) Mr. PARLOW moved the first resolution, which was to the effect that the meeting, considering the perfect union of all Radicals necessary for the accomplishment of their object, to obtain Universal Suffrage, condemned the conduct pursued by the Radicals of Edinburgh. The present crisis was the most important that had ever existed for Ihe working classes. At the present moment they possessed a power most mighty in its operation, one that was to be viewed by them with the highest feelings of &Heft, and by their enemies with dread and alarm.—( Cheers.) The Radicals were now in the high b way to the accomplishment of their great object, and was i t toe said that their prospects were to be blighted by disse ns i ons being raised up among them.--(Loud cheers, and cries of N o , no I") How did the men of Edinburgh propose to accomplish the great object they had in view ? Why, by from them those men who had done all th e wor k, w h o taking l sin ness of purpose in furtherance of the great o bj ects t h e people had braved all the danger, and who had hitherto acted with a had in view. He would say to the men o f S cot l an d ‘‘No," so long as those men act'as they had done; they should have their support, and every attempt to divide should only unite them stronger together.—(Cheers.) The men of Scot land said that too strong language had been used. Good heavens I What language could be too strong, considering the degradation and insult they had r ece i ve d . — ( C heers. , They would never crouch in the dust before their fellow-men.—(Cheers.) Moral force was the first step towards the success of their cause, and that could not be rendered effective unless the people were concentrated. If the p e ople were concentrated, phy s i ca l f orce, which had been said so much about, was not necessary.—(Cheers.) Their enemies wished to divide in order to destroy them, but he trusted that the result of the present meeting would be to show them that they could not effect their object, that the Radicals were determined to be staunch to a man, and that the people united would carry the day.--( Cheers.) Mr. VINER seconded the resolution. He was happy to say that the cause of the English Radicals had met with the sym pathy of their Irish friends._( Cheers.) A Person in the meeting trusted that no discord would rise tip among them. They must adopt the example of the Tories, and allow no squabbling in their ranks, for if they did, the great cause they had to accomplish would be placed in jeopardy. The Resolution was then put to the meeting by the Chair man, and declared by him to be carried unanimously. Mr. H. VINCENT came forward to move the next resolu tion, which was to the effect that the present House of Com mons did not represent the people. They were met to-night to speak their minds plainly and honestly to the Government and their fellow -countrymen—to every man, woman, and child—to all classes of politicians, and all grades of religious opinion —t o tell each and all that the time was just approach ing when the Government of England must surrender up its exclusive powers and monopolies, and give to the people their inherent birthright, Universal Suffrage.—(Cheers.) It was delightful to find that even in the metropolis of London—the centre of corruption, where the bauble Crown was displayed to move the people from the one thing needful--where the tinsel aristocracy, rolling through the streets, mocked the po verty of the p eop l e with its splendour, and where dw e lt a ll th e viciousne ss , misery, and depravity, wich degraded and dis graced ma n . I t was delightful to find that even there the people had aroused from their bonds—that they came from the looms, the workshops, and the courts, to proclaim their own political equality, and to hid the exclusive avaricious few pre pare to meet their doom—for, by the God that made him, their doom would soon be sealed.—(Cheering.) Why were they met to-night? Because they were living under a Govern ment and a Constitution which was said to be " the envy of surrounding nations, and the admiration of the world"— ( Great l aughter) —while the'great mass of the population—the intelligent hard-working mechanics, and the sickly agricultu ral labourers, who toiled from morning till night, receiving 55., 65., and 7s. a week—had no share in the Government whom they were compelled to support, or no share in the making of laws, except to hear the heavy burdens placed upon them. They were met there to-night to tell the rotten. House of Commons—to tell the 300 old women in pantaloons, who sat in the House of Peers—to tell Lords Melbourne and John Russell —to tell Wellington and Peel—the Queen, and the Queen's Mamma, that they were resolved to possess the power which belonged to them, even according to theoretical no. tions of the Constitution —namely, the privilege of electing the Members of the House of Commons, or else let not the other classes have the slightest security for the privilege they possessed.—(Much cheering.) The first, end broadest, and truest definition of a government was, that it should keep down depravity and oppression —that it should extend equal protection to the rich and the poor, and diffuse the blessings of liberty and intelligence to every branch of the human family. The Government of England did not do that. Although in that country they manufactured more goods than would dif fuse comfort and happiness to all the labouring classes, yet they found them steeped in the lowest de a ths of poverty. That showed that there was something rotten in the State, and it could only be eradicated by determination and unity on their parts. The first great principle of the re solution was, that the present House of Commons did not represent the people. Did it ? Yes: but who? All the Three per Cent. Jews and stock-jobbing , and a ll th e nava l an d m ili tary gent l emen. Were they the people? If so, let them keep themselves, and keep their hands out of the pockets of the people. They had a population of 27 millions, and of these only 800,000 'had the elective franchise, and not above 500,000 or 600,000 gave their votes at elections ; and when they came to admit the votes of the minority who did not return themselves, it would be seen that the House of Commons only represented about 300,000 or 400,090. Among these were all persons living on public plunder, or expecting to share in it. Constables, managers of the New Poor.law Bill, and all who hoped to be Aldermen or Mayors, or asses, and who cared nothing for the industrious tradesman. —( Great laughter and cheering.) What „ L ight I.► 4 .. _he Ho is ne ,cf,Oenions, therefore, to g o v ern th em ? 01 1`,.Their - raTilenty or right—the power of the law ! They might talk of the hereditary exclusive powers of the Peerage ; but the House of Commons was as exclusive, to those who had no vote, as the House of Peers. He denied the right of the House of Commons to make laws to govern him, who had no vote. If the House of Commons had that right, then the:people were not entitled to Universal Suffrage; but believing, as he did, that all Governments, to be legal, must be based upon the principle of the benefit and advantage of all, he denied their right. Let the Government, then, choose between re sistance to the laws made by them, or Univ ersa l S u ff rage .— (Tremendou s c h eer i ng. ) Why had they not Universal Suf frage ? Because they had a variety of opponents—the middle classes, who denied that the tradesman possessed intelligence ; but he contended that the shopkeepers possessed no qualification which the tradesman did not possess. Did not the mechanics invent machinery, lay down railroads, which annihilated time and space, and promote the happiness and comfort of the com munity? Shame then upon the middle classes, who denied that the working classes did not possess sufficient intelligence. It was alleged that the working classes were sickly, ill clad__ that their bands were dirty, and their shoes down at heel. He (Mr. Vincent) admitted all that; but the reason nhy they were not better fed and better clad was, that they worked so hard for other people's benefit that they had not time to do anything for themselves.—(Hear.) It was said that the de mocrats were anarchists, which in drawing. room language meant cannibals.—(A laugh.) But he could assure the aristocracy :bat they bad no intention of eating them, for they would prove a bad morsel.—(Hear, hear.) Their object was to promote the comfort and happiness, of the greatest number of the community, and without Universal Suffrage they could not do that. They wished to see the peaceful and moral pro gress of the institutions of the country. He wished to see a Government which would imprison a traitor-ruffian Duke of Cumberland with as much ease as the Dorchester la bourers.—(Loud cheering.) The present meeting was the first of a series of political agitation in the metropolis —it was a sort of Precursor Meeting. It had a silent warning in it, and hid the sleepy members of Downing_ street to take up their sticks and budge. Inasmuch as they were going to have, in a few weeks, not a rotten House of Commons of lawn-sleeved, and white-gloved, and periwigged dandies, but a body of men sent forth from the east and the west, and all parts of the country, to watch over the People's Charter, and to take care that it suffered no indignity from their rotten worships. Inasmuch as they would have that Parliament sitting and working up the steam to blood-heat— es that new Convention would be sitting either by day or night, he hoped that neither the treachery of its own members, or the tea r of the G, wernment, would keep the people from performing their duty. When thus surrounded by the steady men of Lon don. the Convention would be prepared to stand up in the face of God and man to assert their rights, protected from outrage, treachery, and deceit. Who said that the people of London were lethargic and dead ? The Daily Press. And yet what was its conduct during the passing of the Reform Bill?" When eight or ten old women met in any corner of the country, the Times and Chronicle had it announced "by express," and six or eight columns; but when one hun dred thousand men met, as was the case the other day at Manchester, to assert their political independence, these Journals squeak through a penny trumpet, and dwindle the number down to twelve or fourteen thousand.—( Cries of " Shame.") He thanked them for that ; but with what awe would the moment come when the grand national display would be made —when the truly majestic banding of thn people would take plaee-=-when their petition was spurned by the House of Commons, and when the Convention issued its proclamation, aye, its order, to its constituents, calling upon them to leave the anvil, the plough and the loom.---( Vehement cheering)--to stand as in the solemn stillness of the tomb, and to speak to the Government in the language of artful winning, and tell theirs if they did not come down an alai; knees, and yield up peaceful possession of their righta, they would find that there was a point beyond which hafnarn enderance could not go—beyond which they could not remain qniescent —that they would suspend their work and never return until the whole of their privileges were granted.-_( Much cheering.) They were engaged in one of the most important contests that had ever taken place in England. It was not the cause of Whig or Tory, of parte or faction, but of the people at large.—(Hear hear ) It behoved them, then, to be on the alert—they should always hear in mind that a revolu tion to be successful—( let them not be alarmed at the plunge, for all change was revolution)—the Reformßill was a revolution—so was that of 1688, which placed the pre sent family on the Throne)-- but, let them boar in- mind, that to be successful it must be guided by the talent and intelli feence of the country.—( Cheers.) If they rallied round the National Convention, they might rest satisfied that the day was not far distant when it would have to celebrate in one of the Parks of the metropolis, the triumph of the rights and happiness of all classes of the people. Mr. WEBB seconded the resolution, which was passed una nimousle, Mr; O'Connor being compelled to leave, in order to attend another meeting, a vote of thanks was passed to him, and in returning his acknowledgments for the honor. Mr. O'CONNOR said, that notwithstanding the ingenuity of the Press in suppressing everything regarding the movements of the working-classes, the proceedings of this meeting would echo through Lancashire and Yorkshire, and, if necessary, give to their brave brethren there increased vigour, strength, • and determination. Mr. O'C. declared himself to be precisely the same in feelings and principles as when he was last among them, and that, undeterred by the taunts of the Press, and the scorn of the great, and the calumnies of the Whigs and sham Radicals, he would go on in his course so long as he was sup ported by the fustian jacketed working classes.—( Cheers.) It was three years and a quarter a go s i nce h e h a d es t a bli s h e d Radical Associations in a neighbouring parish. From that period Democracy has been advancing with giant strides. And he had been lately devoting himself to the union of the democratic opinion, for it was of no use that the working classes thought aright if they did not know that they thought alike. On the 25th the brave Northumbrians, undaunted by the late attempt to awe them by the military, will be "up and doing." On the 26th he (Mr. O'Connor) was to attend a meeting of the working classes of Bristol, and hoped to unite them with their brethren in London.—(Cheers.) Mr. O'Connor went on to declare that he despised the Press, as the most corrupt engine in the State ; and convinced as he was that noGovern ment could live a day against a united press, he promised shortly to est-.blish a Daily Paper belonging to the people— ( Loud cheers)—hoping that " a little leaven" would speedily " leaven the whole mass."—( Cheers.) Three cheers were given for Mr. O'Connor. It was announced that the proprietor of the room (Mr. Chesney) offered the free use of it gratis, to the working_ classes, as often as they required it. Three cheers were given for Mr. Chesney. Mr. PARRIS was moved into the Chair, and - Mr. Tuoslas moved the last resolution, to the effect, that industry would never meet its fair reward, until the people could exercise their right of choosing representatives, who should fairly and impartially advocate their interests. The resolution was duly seconded and carried unanimously. The meeting then separated shortly before 19 o'clock. A great sensation was created at Quardon (a village about nine miles north of Leicester) this day se'nnight, in consequence of a report that a young man named Silas Cross had shot himself, through a quarrel with his brother, and on inquiry, the rumour was found to be too true. It appeared that the unfortunate young man and his brother were quarrelling nearly all the way home from Leicpster market, and as soon as they reached their dwelling Silas procured a loaded pistol, and, exclaiming—" I won't give you the trouble to pick up my brains l" fired at his chest, and fell to the ground. Medical aid was instantly sent for, but it was feared on' Thursday that lie would not survive, the surgeons not having succeeded in extricating the ball.— Chesterfield Advertiser. At Wakefield, on Monday evening last, a torch light meeting was announced to be held ; but the Magis trates issued a notice in the morning of that day, declaring such meetings to be illegal, and cautioning the inhabitants against violating the law. In the evening the military were called ou t, b ut their aid was rendered unnecessary, the leaders declining to hold the intended meeting in the ' open air. Feargus O'Connor was placarded as chairman ; but he did not make his appearance.—Manchester Times. _ 0 SIR THOMAS LETHBRIDGE. SlR.—Whether your conviction - respecting the necessity of a change in the Corn-laws arises from a sincere desire to have them abolished, or whether the present aspect of the times does not present something of a more portentous and ominous nature than ever presented itself before to the eyes and understanding of the landed proprietors and agricul- turists of the country, I leave the people to guess ; all of whom, Sir, through the medium of their very numerous friends and partizans in the Houses of Commons and Lords immediately after the nation had undergone the cost and losses of war, which terminated in 1815, took especial care to curse the land with a Corn-law, for the protection of no other interest whatever but their , own I which disgraceful and truly unnatural law the people have been made to en dure these 23 years ! praying and petitioning for its repeal for the whole of that time ; until petitioning and petitions were treated by both Houses of Parliament with the most marked and signal contempt ! ! In consequence of which the people have been compelled to take up another and more important position, and to shape their line of conduct most in accordance with the present state of the times, or that crisis ! which might have been totally prevented, but for the gross stupidity and selfishness of the Legislature, landowners, &c., &c., who, wonderful to say, now begin to see in the distance of our political horizon a tempest only to be put down (not by the sabres of the yeomanry, &c.) by equal-banded justice to all ! And on no other terms, will, or ought the people of England to treat. Does any man—can any man—be so truly insane to think, that the Corn laws were not enacted for the sole benefit of the landed proprietors and occupiers of land, to the greatest possible injury of the_other class of our fellow-countrymen, to the loss of foreign commerce, shipowners, classes depen dant on commerce, labourers,tnanufacturing classes, artizans, interchangers, and shop-Reepers—all, all, of whose respec tive interests have been sacrificed at the shrine of these base end truly unholy laws. And I maintain the charge to be true, and substantiated by their present effects upon the country ! Indeed, if the Corn-laws had not proved so great a source of wealth, where could have been the necessity of their being so cruelly and pertinaciously persevered in so many years ? or until revolution stares the Legislature in the face, ere the least notice be taken of the injustice of such laws, which were intended, and are so well regulated to reach the pockets of the people —to cramp industry, and finally to pauperise millions. This was the regulation of the Legislature, after all their honourable and kind-hearted " doubling and hesitation" in the disinterested Senate of England, who at the cessation of the Bonapartean war, or rather the Tory war, and when the nation was steeped in distress and ruin, as a panacea gave us a Corn-law, by way of accommodation, in order to keep wheat, rentals, &c. at war prices ! The average price of wheat during the 23 years' wer was 41. ss. lid. per quarter, and the corn-laws were intended to keep that price in peace, and to perpetu ate it if possible, to the latest moment. The position of this country at the conclusion of the war, naturally enough, became difficult, from the wasteful extravagance and profu sion of the Government, public debt, change, and value of of the currency, &c. &c., all. of which were contracted by and under the control of the Tories, then in power ; who were as anxious as Legislators possibly could be for the pre sentation of petitions from agricultural districts, in order to pass and secure theirfavourite measure ; and to prevent the importation offoreign Cern. And in passing tbia nefariousßill, they were very indignantly opposed by the people of this country—manufacturing, commercial, indestriat, and all that made it great and strong. But how were the peti tions of the people received by the Honourable—the feel ing --the Christian House of Commons ? whose selfishness and contumely on that occasion bespoke them to be any thing but the representatives of the people, whose daily bread they had dared to tax contrary to all law—human or divine, for whose conduct, poor indeed is the plea, now set up in their defence ; but we can at all times find apolo gists in support of evil systems, and in this instance, I re gret that they arc in se!fish numbers, promoting their own interest, though millions pine of want. It was an evi dent fact, that these laws were only enacted for the benefit of the landowners and occupiers, but more so for the bene fit of the former than the latter, and not for the whole people, who, from the first of their enactment, set their face against the measure, as one likely to involve the coun try in distress, and our manufactures, &e., in ruin, which has proved but too true in its results. Had there been a moderate fixed duty and a free importation of corn, the people would then have listened to the measure ; but the duty proposed being considered too high and nearly of a prohibitory nature, the modesty of the Legislature and their friends, to put a better face upon the matter, gave up the idea of a fixed and permanent duty, and enacted the present fluctuating scale of duties as the most congenial to their interest, but most delusive and fraudulent in its ope tions. Had corn been admissible into the English market at at .ss. or 6s. per quarter duty, the people of England, nor their trade, commerce, and manufactures, could have been in the wretched and - degraded state they now are. And who have been the cause of the present state of things? Our landowners and Legislators! by whose acts the foreign growers and merchants have been interdicted the markets of this country, and the principle s of com merce most shamefully violated. And, now that we are beginning to reap the frightful folly of our truly wise legisla tors, from the want of free importation, and that we can not have a supply of corn when it is wanted, in time of scarcity and dearness, the country is to be placed in a state of jeopardy, with the prospect of great convulsions, if not revolution ! towards which state, from the present movements of the people, the coun try is rapidly approaching. In this unhappy dilemma, and when the patience of the nation is exhausted by legislative trickery, what are our prospects but gloomy and dishearten ing for the future? and where the hope, but in the mode ration and patriotism of the people, who are no longer to be duped by promises, no sooner made than broken, by their representatives? To say that the lotus which regulate the trade in corn " were made after much doubting and hesitation," appears a mis-statement of the fact, for in 1815, when the motion was made in the House of Commons by Mr. Robinson (now Lord Ripon), so intent and determined were the landowners to pass the Bill, that, fearing the opposition of the people—assembled at the time of its passing at the hour of midnight—the House of Commons was surrounded by bayonets and cannon, to give sanction to the measure and overawe the people, many of whom were killed and wounded on the occasion, in manifesting their hatred to a measure of such gross oppression, and which has proved-a source of evil, which, if not very soon removed, will to a certainty lead to anarchy and confusion. The people will not s'esrve much longer e under the influence of such d ea th- engen d er i ng laws ! Talk of " hesitating and doubting," were there either " hesitating or doubting" at Manchester in 1819, wEen the people assembled peaceably and legally to petition for the abolition of the Corn-laws Y No, there was no hesitation in the work of blood and slaughter of their vic tims, who fell under the sabres, &c., of the cowardly, as sassin-like soldiery, who revelled in the blood of their fel low-creatures, for no other crime than to petition the then heaven-born Prince Regent for a repeal of those laws! the injustice of which, upon a country like England (essentially a manufacturing country) has long and amply been proved by the downward state of our foreign commerce, manufac tures, rate of labour, 4-c., none of which shall we be able much longer to exchange for the products of the civilized world, the inhabitants, merchants, &c., of which, having but little to give in exchange for British manufactures,.ex cept their corn and other products, the former of which is very carefully interdicted our markets, save and except when the people are nearly borne down with famine, engendered by such laws, taxing the bread and food of man, for no other purpose than filling the pockets of landlords, monopolizers, speculators, &c., egc., at the cost of a famishing population, who, through the medium of the Corn-laws, have been the sorrowing witnesses of systems being persevered in only calculated to ruin our manufactures, or to drive them to distant lands. But, it may be hoped that this country is on the eve of some great and important changes, such as the Abolition of the Corn-laws, &c., that we may be able to compete with other countries in agriculture, manufac tures, &c., and that no seOish, ridiculous, or cruel laws may stand in the way or impede the comforts and happiness of the human race I but that all who live may enjoy the great, the blessed boon of plenty, so bountifully bestowed on man—untaxed food ! ! and that all nations and people may enjoy that friendly and social intercourse intended by the Almighty, who never intended the wicked Go vernments of the earth to tax the food of his people ! No I Never ! And yet our Ch r i st i an rulers of England have presumed to tax and make dear all our necessaries and comforts of life. But " the my that treadeM out the corn" shall yet be unmuzzled, and man shall have his fill, in de spite of selfish men or wicked laws. 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